First of all, I want to say a big "Thank you!!!!" to Twobob and Eureka: without their help and wisdom, my little dream would never come true! (If you are curious to know how this project was born, you could give a glance here and here)

Now, let's talk about the app.

What does Kindle Menu do?

- Bundles and launches all the best apps for Kindle (according to my arbitrary opinion :P).
- Provides some useful shortcuts (light toggle, wifi toggle, screen saver prevention toggle, etc.)
- Shows up instantly, saving your precious time
- Bundles a task manager
- Provides a shortcut for launching KUAL, and a KUAL-like faster launcher too
- Provides a "slide to show" function, like Android: just slide your finger from the top bar to make Kindle Menu show (this features lasts "only" until you reboot the device or the framework)
- Works in both landscape and portrait mode

How to install it?
Just extract everything from the .zip archive into your Kindle main directory.
In order to use Kindle Menu, you will need to install also: Jailbreak, KUAL and its prerequisites

How to launch it?
Once installed, you can launch Kindle Menu from KUAL (KUAL -> Kindle Menu -> Show Kindle Menu), or, always from KUAL, enable the slide-on-topbar shortcut to launch it with a finger slide (KUAL -> Kindle Menu -> Enable status bar shortcut). This shortcut will persist until you reboot the device or the framework. This is the recommended, fastest way to launch Kindle Menu.

1.4
- NEW APP ADDED: KindleTask 0.1
I made this tiny new app (10kb) to replace in a native way Yad task manager,
that didn't work on PW2. Screenshot below.
- Overall speed improvement , especially in app launching. I fixed a little bottleneck that didn't see before
- Fixed alert timing small issue
- Battery button now works as an ON/OFF switch, not ON only (like it did before instead)
- Fixed kterm layout when launched from landscape mode
- Recoded some javascript for better performances and readability
- Faster method to add your custom shorcuts with icons. Please refer to the brand new guide below in this post.

1.3b
- Fixed Exstensions launcher issues with some script ("light toggle OFF
on wakeup" excluded. For now, just don't launch it from Kindle Menu)

1.2
- Fixed non-appearing menu bug, introduced in v 1.1
- Fixed support for more then 4 custom shorcuts. Now you can add
up to 30 shorcuts
- Better support for shorcuts scripts. Now, before launching the script,
Kindle Menu will enter the script folder, just like KUAL does
- If Midori and KOreader has not been installed, their entry is removed
from Kindle Menu

1.1
- Added Custom Shortcuts launcherNow you can easily make custom shortcuts to .sh files, adding new rows to the file custom_shortcuts.txt in /extensions/kindlemenu/ folder
- Removed light-control icons from Kindle Touch (not needed)
- New notification method (now it doesn't write anymore into the status bar)
- In KindleNotes, click on the notification bar make it disappear instantly

APPS THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SEPARATELY:
- Midori: a great web browser for Kindle, download it here
- KOReader: the best pdf reader for Kindle, download it here
These apps are simply too big to be embedded in the package.

Guide: How to add your custom app launcher to Kindle Menu:

Spoiler:

If you don't need to add an app launcher with icon, simply edit the file custom_shortcuts.txt in /extensions/kindlemenu/ folder. If instead you want to make a nice-looking launcher with icon, like default ones, follow these instructions:

Copy-paste this code immediatly after the line <div id="appContainer"> in the file /extensions/kindlemenu/bin/kindlemenupage.html:

Now, replace:
- /your/complete/path/to/script/goes/here.sh with the complete path to your app script
- 0 with 1 only if you must force the app to run in portrait mode even when you are reading in landscape (some need that)
- youricon.jpg with the name of your app icon, that you must place in the folder /extensions/kindlemenu/bin/icons
- Your app name with the app name that you want to show up in Kindle Menu

Save the file, and you are done!

IMPORTANT: Remember to backup your modifications before every update of Kindle Menu, because they will be overwritten!

TODO LIST:

Spoiler:

- Clean up the code, extrapolating most used functions etc.- Add the possibility to easily add customized shorcuts DONE
- Add a permanent installation shortcut
- Implement a way to switch between running apps (? doubts for the low amount of RAM...)
- Bundle the app "Osmo", when ready, and others- Hide tray icons on uncompatible device (ex. light toggle on KT)
- Add an alarm app with notifications while reading- Add a simple note-taking form DONE
- Add a "last update check" that downloads this thread html page, scan it and return to the user the last version number of Kindle Menu
- Fix the "shortcuts vanishing when launching Koreader from Kual" issue using an automated patch- FIX LAYOUT ISSUES ON TOUCH

KNOWN BUGS:
- On KT FW5.1.2., when Kindle Menu is launched the keyboard appears [link]
- On KT, pressing the home button while Kindle Menu is in landscape mode causes layout problems [link]
- "More apps" launcher doesn't work with Toggle Light OFF on Wakeup script.

He's saying I will keep my eye out for a kindle touch for you.
Or - funds willing - buy one and send it to you. I did have a look around.

There is currently £8 GBP in the "devices" fund. (and that is from one donation in the last 4 months) That isn't likely to buy a PW2 in a hurry. but I will keep my eye out for a cheap Kindle Touch - My devices guy comes again on Thursday so I will see what the current going rate is.

I would just like to add that I personally have donated more than 50% to every device the fund has ever bought (including stepk's) just in case anyone thought I was actually making any money....

Perhaps one day we will hit enough funds to a) be able to buy a PW2 and b) donate the leftovers to a worthy cause. That day is not likely to come soon though.